furnace
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You might go out to work and let the house cool down; then return home and fire up the furnace.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
The company said in December that it would eliminate a third of its workforce, or about 1,000 jobs, as it shuttered production from its blast furnace and coke ovens and transitioned to electric-arc steelmaking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Unlike a gas furnace, which burns fuel to create heat, a heat pump compresses and expands a refrigerant, like a refrigerator in reverse.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
What better way to spend it than in the furnace of the Old Firm.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
The weather was hot and the steam machine that pulled the chain logs through the blade had a big furnace that was always being stoked.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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